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Please do not make any more updates to these legacy wiki pages, all future updates should be made in your country's local Wazeopedia.

Arkansas. Review all the sections to better understand how the guidelines for this state might deviate from the overall USA or worldwide guidelines. If you have any comments or questions about this page or state refer to the community links below.

ARKANSAS EDITORS: Sign-up with a valid email in the Waze Forum. It keeps your email address PRIVATE, but allows other editors and managers to get needed info to you in private messages. Plus the Arkansas page will have important editing info that you need to know.

NOTE: Check the change in State Highway Naming below.

SPECIAL ROADS, Some areas rely on gravel roads as primary routing. Arkansas does treat Dirt Roads differently in some instances.

Welcome to Waze map editing in Arkansas! We currently don't have a large number of active editors here but are hoping to get more and appreciate your volunteering to help! Waze map editing is a fun, interesting hobby for those that like to "fix" things that are broken and improve those that aren't as good as they could be. Waze is a social navigation and traffic application and, likewise, editors tend to be social too. As evidenced by this Wiki, Waze uses Wiki pages to a great extent for information sharing. Waze also uses community forums and social applications (Google Hangouts, Slack) to facilitate map editor communication.

The Waze user community follows the Waze etiquette guidelines discussed in the Wiki. Be sure to familiarize yourself with these guiding principals while editing the maps and this Wiki, as well as when communicating with other Waze users.

See Arkansas/Resources for guidance in Arkansas that may not be universal to all other states.

Tools and Scripts

Waze editors have created some very useful editing tools and utilities to aid in the map editing process. For a complete listing and discussion of these tools go to the Community Plugins, Extensions and Tools Wiki. Tools that are especially useful are:

WME Toolbox

WME Validator

WME Junction Angle Info

Update Requests (URs)

This is a collection of boilerplate responses for most typically encountered UR issues received in Waze Map Editor. Editors are encouraged to read the Update Request and examine Waze-provided data and tailor these responses appropriately to incorporate pertinent details as the boilerplate text is not always an exact match for the situation.

Regarding Unlock/Update requests, first post the request in the USA Unlock/Update forum in the proper format. If you do not get a response in a few days, send a Private Message (PM) to a State Manager listed below, or the South Central Regional Coordinator jasonh300.

Some states and territories manage a separate page on cities and towns to identify the specific city names that should be entered, and no others. For states that do not have a separate page to track the names, see this Wikipedia link and find the state or territory in question.

Arkansas Highway Types

Arkansas has only numbered state highways. The minimum classification for a state highway is Minor Highway. That is only a minimum and may need to be upgraded based on the Functional Classification or the qualities defined on the USA road type Wiki page.

State Highway Naming

Arkansas highways are named as AR-### (e.g. AR-23). This includes their related business, loops, and spurs. (e.g. AR-23 BUS) (Changed as of Nov 2015)

County Road Naming

Arkansas county road names are named as CR-### (e.g. CR-110)

County road name designations, such as "County Road ###", "Co Rd ###", "SFC ###", "Lawrence Rd ###", etc. should transition to CR-###. This shortened version takes up less space on the map screen and is announced correctly as "County Road ###" while navigating with the Waze app.

Arkansas Road Segment Locking Guidance

Arkansas provides the following guidance for locking roads based on segment type. Any road of a certain segment type should be locked at least to the rank (level) in the chart below. Roads may be locked higher for protection and special situations (areas with construction, tricky design, frequent mistakes, imaging inaccuracies, and the like), but should not be locked lower.

A great time to implement these locks is while bringing the road types of an area into compliance with the current US road type standards (FC and highway systems). Lock the roads based on type after they've been set to current US road type standards.

Cameras

Not every camera-looking device at an intersection is a speed or red light camera. Generally speaking:

a speed camera takes a photograph of a vehicle when it passes by the camera at too high a speed.

a red light camera takes a photograph of a vehicle that enters an intersection after the light is red. In some areas, it takes the photograph when a vehicle is not clear of the intersection some period after the light turns red.

No other camera types should be mapped in Waze. SUMMARY: In Arkansas, DO NOT add a camera using WME or the client (mobile App). If camera radar is used by police officers, that will be reported as POLICE in the client.